i love that every time you mention that
you can crash firefox by typing about:crashparent into the url bar
someone inevitably tries it, and then is like "why did i do this to myself"
@Gankra Hmm. I think I can make that into a bookmark. For reasons.
@Gankra why does it respawn a page with just "a"
@Gankra oooh I wanna make my site Russian roulette with a .03% chance to replace any link with this as the target.
@Gankra@toot.cat @arichtman@eigenmagic.net unfortunately i don't think it'd work (about:config doesn't)
@Gankra why would you regret it though
@Gankra What puzzles me is why anyone would type that in. It’s not as though it’s a recognised address bar command. Is it a cat/keyboard incident?
@Jawaka @Gankra
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― #TerryPratchett Thiefof Time #quote
@lkundrak@metalhead.club@ghostdancer @Jawaka @Gankra the innocent version is about:robots (safe to do, no crash)
@Gankra To test if crash events are handled correctly
@april@lethallava.land@Gankra@toot.cat i really don't know what i expected
@Gankra Wow, it really does work!
@tournesol@peculiar.florist@Gankra here I go !
@tournesol@peculiar.florist@Gankra this was fun 
@Gankra it works on mobile!
@Rib@fedi.rib.gay@Gankra is chrome://inducebrowsercrashforrealz still a thing for chromium-based browsers?
@Gankra@toot.cat im pretty sure you can do chrome:initiatebrowsercrashforrealz on chrome
Funny that they leave that one out of about:about
@Gankra
me: tries it
firefox: crashes
me:
me: not sure what i expected here
@Gankra I just tried it, why did I do this to myself
@Gankra oh wow i expected that to crash the current window not the whole thing that's amazing
@jyn there is one and only one parent process
@Gankra one parent to rule them all, one parent to find them, one parent to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
@Gankra this should be cargo-mommy's motto
@Gankra LMAO crashes Firefox Mobile as well
@Gankra I have 5 tabs open and active in FF and am in the middle of editing a document in one and yet I now feel compelled to try this. Thanks, I guess ...
:)
@Gankra For anybody who's learning this for the first time and REALLY WANTS to try it... may I gently suggest its younger sibling: about:crashcontent (just crashes the current tab)
@Gankra: "Dead dove, do not eat" moment.
@Gankra
Works on Firefox on Android too!
@Gankra that's amazing, did try, and first time I've seen the crash reporter
@Gankra I'm gonna do it.
@Gankra why did i do this to myself
If you on a windows computer : Don't forget to press ALT+F4 :)
@Gankra "Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he’ll have to touch it to be sure."
@Gankra The next step is setting up proper logging, so you end up with a crash dump of your firefox sou you can analyse the state it was in when you triggered the crash.
On most unix-like systems you can do this with any process by sending a signal using an app called 'kill'. kill signals is a bit of a rabithole, and I'm not going dive into it on a platform that limits me to 500 characters.
@Gankra trying it is the only way to know whether to believe you. so no regrets at all.
